romance Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/romance/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:30:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Why Do We Write Romance? By Sara Dobie Bauer and Em Shotwell https://booksbywomen.org/why-do-we-write-romance-by-sara-dobie-bauer-and-em-shotwell/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-do-we-write-romance-by-sara-dobie-bauer-and-em-shotwell/#respond Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:06:32 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21333 Sara Dobie Bauer Author of the Bite Somebody series and Enchanted trilogy contributor Well, for the sex, obviously. Just kidding—sort of. All stories of every genre should be about people relating (or not relating) to other people. In romance, you get to make two fictional characters do the most amazing thing possible. No, not sex. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-do-we-write-romance-by-sara-dobie-bauer-and-em-shotwell/feed/ 0 21333 Magpies and Well Filling https://booksbywomen.org/magpies-and-well-filling-by-liz-fenwick/ https://booksbywomen.org/magpies-and-well-filling-by-liz-fenwick/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:52:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13588 I believe writers are magpies. We collect shiny objects (interesting tidbits of conversation, mannerisms, images, snippets of research – whatever catches our roving eyes) without consciously being aware. Some of the time we note them down, but other times they drift to the back of our minds – seemingly forgotten. There they wait for the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/magpies-and-well-filling-by-liz-fenwick/feed/ 12 13588 Celebrating Rejection Letters? Easy After Finding Felicity is Published https://booksbywomen.org/celebrating-rejection-letters-after-finding-felicity-is-published-by-monica-marlowe/ https://booksbywomen.org/celebrating-rejection-letters-after-finding-felicity-is-published-by-monica-marlowe/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:45:20 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=1277 Rejection letters are beautiful things. I can say that now, feeling somewhat smug that my novel, the very novel for which I have said beautiful rejection letters, has found a home. That it took six years is a fact that I do my best to repress. They were six very very long years. Does it […]

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